Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1520 The University of Texas at Arlington (143408)
Principal Investigator: Yan Wan,yan.wan@uta.edu,(817) 272-3472
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 812,417
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 5/15/23 - 4/30/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: UT Arlington Research Institute
Department, Center, School, or Institute: none
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: ENS: Enhanced Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
CFDA Link: NSF
47.070
Program Title:
CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
CFDA Linked: Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Note:
(SAM Category 1.1.1.)The objective of this proposal is to enhance the open networked airborne computing platform so as to facilitate more advanced research in the CISE community. The intellectual merit lies in a new set of enhancements to facilitate more advance research and applications of airborne computing. Specifically, we propose to enhance the infrastructure in four major areas. First, a new hardware will be designed to integrate more powerful computing units. Secondly, for the communications and networking area, we propose to integrate software-defined radio (SDR), long-term evolution (LTE), phased array antenna, and software-defined networking functions. Thirdly, for the computing area, we propose to develop novel services for airborne computing, including the target recognition and tracking service, UAV-assisted mobile edge computing service, and airborne LiDAR data processing service. Finally, for the security area, we propose (1) to integrate security packages to fulfill essential security requirements, such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication, etc., and (2) to develop a secure and privacy-preserving federated learning platform. All the four participating universities are minority-serving (UPRM), or Hispanic serving (UTA, UNT, and SDSU) institutions with a large number of underrepresented minority students. Our education and outreach activities will produce a profound impact on broad communities and significantly benefit the large number of underrepresented minority students in these institutions. Ongoing activities in curriculum and laboratory development will be expanded to port research results to education and training. PIs will continue to attract US undergraduate students into research development through supervising senior students’ capstone projects, undergraduate research experience programs, and student clubs. PIs will disseminate research results to local communities through K-12 outreach activities, and also pursue broad dissemination through organizing student design competitions, tutorials, and workshops in international conferences, participating in national demonstration efforts, and reaching out to domain professionals. The proposed project that enhances an open networked airborne computing platform, featured by providing an innovative hardware design, integrating important communications and networking functions, enabling advanced airborne computing services, and enhancing the security features, will address the design and evaluation needs of many researchers in the CISE community. The proposed project can also help to address fundamental challenges in the areas of antenna design, wireless communication and networks, SDN, stochastic optimal control, edge computing, etc. Consequently, the proposed research infrastructure will benefit a wide range of applications in the emergency, energy, environment, and transportation sectors. These advancements will help promote economic growth and enhance the security of the nation.
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